Leon Haslam delivered an inch perfect lap to claim pole position
in Datatag Qualifying for tomorrow's opening MCE Insurance British
Superbike Championship race at Cadwell Park, lapping under his own
existing lap record from 2007.

An intense qualifying session first saw Tyco BMW's Christian
Iddon crash out unhurt in Q2 at Mansfield to end his run
prematurely, which puts him 13th on the grid for race one. He
wasn't the only rider to slide out of the action as Dan Linfoot was
narrowly holding ninth before a crash at the Mountain. The Honda
Racing rider was luckily able to still make the cut for Q3 and the
team rapidly made the changes to get him back out in the final
session to qualify ninth.

Buildbase BMW's Lee Jackson was the first to complete a flying
lap, putting the Buildbase BMW at the top of the times, but just a
few minutes later his team-mate Richard Cooper forged ahead.

Shane 'Shakey' Byrne was on a charge, but the Be Wiser Ducati
rider couldn't quite better Cooper's time initially and moved into
second place. It wasn't long before Haslam moved ahead, pushing
Byrne back to third with Cooper still holding the top spot.

There was just 0.003s between Cooper and Haslam, but the 'Pocket
Rocket' was on his final run and in the last minute he set the
fastest ever lap of the Lincolnshire circuit to go to the top of
the times. Byrne's final lap put him second, just ahead of Cooper
who completes the front row.

Jackson was pushed back onto row two in the final seconds ahead
of Jason O'Halloran on the leading Honda Racing Fireblade and Luke
Mossey on the Quattro Plant Teccare Kawasaki.

Tommy Bridewell's last lap push saw him move up to seventh ahead
of James Ellison and Linfoot, with the top nine covered by just
0.754s ahead of tomorrow's opening race!